“Man does not love society so much as he fears solitude.”
— Will Durant
“Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.”
— Seneca
“Life with illusion is intolerable and without it unbearable.”
— Ester Benjamin Shifren
“Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.”
— Will Durant
“What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.”
— Ernest Becker
“Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you are retired.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Perfection is achieved, not when there Is nothing more to add, but when there Is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in symbolic extensions of ourselves.”
— Ernest Becker
“If you think money doesn’t buy happiness, then you’re just not spending it right.”
— Dan Gilbert
“It is not the ego that produces thought but rather thought that produces ego. When thought changes, so does the ego.”
— Alexander Bard
“Culture is the operating system for groups of people.”
— Kirby Farrell
“Evolution is an integration of matter and a concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.”
— Herbert Spencer
“Gnothi seauton”
— Socrates
“Bitcoin is a platform of trust. It is the concept of decentralization applied to the human communication of value.”
— Andreas Antonopoulos
“The essence of normality is the refusal of reality.”
— Ernest Becker
“The most important trades we make are the ones we make with our future selves.”
— Ross Stevens
“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Either have children or become a saint, because eventually, you have to find something you love more than you love yourself.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Attention is the only hard currency in the virtual world.”
— Alexander Bard
“Evolution does not care about the species or its members. It favors only the genes that spread best through the population.”
— David Deutsch
““What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true. Suffering is that moment when we can no longer deny reality.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Man must at all times defend the utter fragility of his delicately constituted fiction and deny its artificiality.”
— Ernest Becker
“Every vice was once a virtue, necessary in the struggle for existence; it became a vice only when it survived the conditions that made it indispensable.”
— Will Durant
“Why does man unnecessarily complicate his life? Because in this very complexity there is a challenge to ego mastery and a denial of meaninglessness.”
— Ernest Becker
“Each organism preens itself on the specialness of the life that throbs within it, and is ready to subordinate all others to its own continuation.”
— Ernest Becker
“A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength - life itself is the will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
— Nietzsche
“The tendency to see intent everywhere leads us to presume the presence of actors - including our ego, a very useful construction that makes it possible to describe our actions.”
— Alexander Bard
“Time is thought.”
— Kapil Gupta
“If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children. And to his final breath, he will be grateful for this inexhaustible legacy, knowing that it is our nourishing mother and our lasting life.”
